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06-25-2015 Forever Wild Meeting Minutes 1 1 MINUTES OF THE 2 FOREVER WILD BOARD MEETING 3 HUNTSVILLE MUSEUM OF ART 4 Huntsville, Alabama 5 June 25, 2015 6 7 8 * * * * * * * * * * * * * 9 10 TRANSCRIPT OF PROCEEDINGS 11 12 * * * * * * * * * * * * * 13 14 15 Proceedings taken before Tracye 16 Sadler Blackwell, Certified Court Reporter, ACCR 17 No. 294, and Commissioner for the State of Alabama 18 at Large, at the Hunstville Museum of Art, 300 19 Church Street, Huntsville, Alabama, on Thursday, 20 June 25, 2015, commencing at approximately 21 10:08 a.m. 22 23 * * * * * * * * * * * * * HAISLIP, RAGAN, GREEN, STARKIE & WATSON, P.C. (334) 263-4455 2 1 BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT: 2 Mr. N. Gunter Guy, Jr. Commissioner 3 Dr. Gary Hepp Dr. Patricia G. Sims 4 Dr. Warren Strickland Mr. Leo Allen 5 Mr. Charles E. Ball Mr. Russell A. Runyan 6 Mr. Horace H.Horn, Jr. Dr. Michael Woods 7 8 9 10 * * * * * * * * * * * * 11 12 13 14 COMMISSIONER GUY: If I could have everyone's 15 attention, I'd like to call our meeting 16 of the Forever Wild Board for June 25, 17 2015, to order. Welcome, everybody, to 18 the city of Huntsville. It's great to 19 be here, and we look forward to a good 20 meeting. 21 At this time it's necessary to call 22 the roll of our board members to assure 23 ourselves that we have a quorum. So if HAISLIP, RAGAN, GREEN, STARKIE & WATSON, P.C. (334) 263-4455 3 1 you would answer when I call your name 2 if you're present, I would appreciate 3 it. 4 Dr. Warren Strickland? 5 DR. STRICKLAND: Present. 6 COMMISSIONER GUY: Dr. Patricia Sims? 7 DR. SIMS: Present. 8 COMMISSIONER GUY: Mr. Ball? 9 MR. BALL: Present. 10 COMMISSIONER GUY: Dr. Hepp? 11 DR. HEPP: Present. 12 COMMISSIONER GUY: Dr. Woods? 13 DR. WOODS: Present. 14 COMMISSIONER GUY: Mr. Allen? 15 MR. ALLEN: Here. 16 COMMISSIONER GUY: Mr. Runyan? 17 MR. RUNYON: Here. 18 COMMISSIONER GUY: Mr. Horn? 19 MR. HORN: Here. 20 COMMISSIONER GUY: Mr. Ellis? 21 (No response.) 22 COMMISSIONER GUY: Mr. Porter? 23 (No response.) HAISLIP, RAGAN, GREEN, STARKIE & WATSON, P.C. (334) 263-4455 4 1 COMMISSIONER GUY: Dr. Valentine? 2 (No response.) 3 COMMISSIONER GUY: Mr. Pate? 4 (No response.) 5 COMMISSIONER GUY: Mr. Cauthen? 6 (No response.) 7 COMMISSIONER GUY: Dr. Lawton? 8 (No response.) 9 COMMISSIONER GUY: Including myself, we have 10 nine members, so we do have enough for a 11 quorum and we can proceed with business 12 today. So thanks to everybody who is in 13 attendance today. And I know that 14 others who did not make it had told us 15 that they were having some problems with 16 schedules and that kind of thing, and we 17 appreciate them letting us know. 18 All right. So at this time we'll 19 proceed with a few items of business. 20 The first thing I would like to do 21 is -- at the last meeting we introduced 22 a couple of our new board members, 23 Mr. Runyan on my left and Mr. Ball to my HAISLIP, RAGAN, GREEN, STARKIE & WATSON, P.C. (334) 263-4455 5 1 right. And this is their second 2 meeting. But we did not have the 3 pleasure of having our other newest 4 board member with us last time, but he 5 is here today. And that is Mr. Horace 6 Horn. 7 MR. HORN: Thank you. 8 COMMISSIONER GUY: Horace, glad to have you 9 with us. Glad to have you on the board. 10 I know you'll be a valuable asset to us 11 and appreciate you coming up here today. 12 I know you had some scheduling 13 conflicts, so we appreciate that very 14 much. 15 MR. HORN: Thank you. Glad to be here. 16 COMMISSIONER GUY: So with that, I would also 17 like to recognize -- ask the board if 18 they want to recognize any special 19 guests or if they have any special 20 messages they want to discuss at this 21 time. 22 Dr. Strickland. 23 DR. STRICKLAND: Mr. Chairman, in behalf of HAISLIP, RAGAN, GREEN, STARKIE & WATSON, P.C. (334) 263-4455 6 1 the Forever Wild Board of Directors, I 2 would like to extend my sincere 3 appreciation to Sarah Gessler and Lil 4 Parton. They both are responsible for 5 allowing us to enjoy this beautiful 6 venue. The Huntsville Museum of Art is 7 something we're very proud of, and, you 8 know, it's a special place. And we 9 certainly appreciate them giving us the 10 opportunity to be here. 11 COMMISSIONER GUY: I'd like to give them a 12 round of applause. 13 Any other messages or recognition of 14 guests? 15 (No response.) 16 COMMISSIONER GUY: I would also like to thank 17 Dr. Strickland and Dr. Sims for actually 18 putting this meeting together up here 19 for us. I always enjoy -- we always 20 enjoy an opportunity to come to 21 Huntsville. And I really appreciate all 22 the work y'all put into putting this 23 together and being great hosts. So HAISLIP, RAGAN, GREEN, STARKIE & WATSON, P.C. (334) 263-4455 7 1 thank you very much. 2 DR. STRICKLAND: It's our pleasure. 3 COMMISSIONER GUY: Thank you. 4 All right. With that, I would like 5 to at this time ask -- as I call your 6 name for those who wish to speak to the 7 board, I will ask you to come up to the 8 microphone, and we'll hear from the 9 public. I'll do my best to get your 10 names right. If I don't, I apologize in 11 advance. 12 And, secondly, I want to remind 13 everybody, as I do, that we have a court 14 reporter here. And her job is to take 15 down what we say so we can post those 16 minutes as required by law. Try to 17 speak as slowly as you can so she can 18 take that down. And we need to try not 19 to talk over each other so that she can 20 also get what we are saying. 21 So the court reporter is right here. 22 If she gives me one of those nasty 23 looks, then I might stop you. So Tracye HAISLIP, RAGAN, GREEN, STARKIE & WATSON, P.C. (334) 263-4455 8 1 and I have known each other for a long 2 time, and I know what those looks are. 3 So bear with me if I ask you to slow 4 down or repeat what you said, just 5 because she has done that to me. 6 Okay. So with that, Shane Ellison. 7 MR. ELLISON: Good morning. 8 COMMISSIONER GUY: Good morning. 9 MR. ELLISON: Good to see you all again. I'm 10 bringing you this project for the second 11 time, thankfully. This is a City of 12 Gadsden project that's approximately 80 13 acres on Hinds Road adjacent to the city 14 park, Noccalula Falls Park, which is one 15 of the state's top tourist attractions. 16 I'm sure most of you have heard about it 17 before. 18 I'll point out again -- hopefully 19 you can see from there. This is the two 20 tracts, the two 40s here, which is 21 virtually adjacent to the park. And 22 the -- for lack of a better word, the 23 squiggly lines you see are mountain-bike HAISLIP, RAGAN, GREEN, STARKIE & WATSON, P.C. (334) 263-4455 9 1 trails, which are intentionally squiggly 2 because that's the way that they're laid 3 out. 4 But we have almost four miles of 5 mountain-bike trails. We have two miles 6 of ADA compliant handicap-accessible 7 walking trails there at the park. And 8 they actually connect with this property 9 via a small two-lane road, especially a 10 gravel road, that is in itself an 11 attraction for walkers and for 12 mountain-bikers. And so there is no 13 problem with connecting the two 14 properties. Actually, our goal is to 15 acquire -- the city to acquire 16 everything in between so that it could 17 be basically one large parcel, one large 18 tract. 19 And so there's a lot of -- a lot of 20 things going on, a lot of synergy there 21 at the park right now. We've even been 22 able to take advantage of what was 23 previously a landfill and have an event HAISLIP, RAGAN, GREEN, STARKIE & WATSON, P.C. (334) 263-4455 10 1 that hosted about -- called the 2 "Barbarian Challenge" that hosted about 3 750 individuals this weekend on an old 4 landfill. So we've been very successful 5 in reusing nearby properties. 6 So my understanding is that the 7 first appraisal has been completed. 8 Maybe the process has gone further than 9 that. But just to remind you the 10 importance of this project to, I think, 11 the city and the state and just ask you 12 to continue to support this project. Of 13 course, if you have any questions, I'd 14 be glad to answer them. 15 COMMISSIONER GUY: Any questions for 16 Mr. Ellison? 17 And I think we have another speaker, 18 I believe, on this. 19 MR. ELLISON: Michelle Reynolds, I believe, 20 will be speaking about the terrain and 21 the wildlife or the plant center located 22 on the property.
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